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The image on the photographer’s camera could be a scene from a dystopian film. In the muted light of dawn, an environmental activist sits chained to a tractor with a bicycle lock around his neck. A ...
SEATTLE (CN) – British Columbia will stop logging in the headwaters of the Skagit River due to environmental concerns, the province’s government announced Wednesday. All timber sales in the area’s ...
Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas ...
Amid an international dispute, British Columbia’s government announced Wednesday that it will no longer allow timber sales in the Skagit River’s headwaters. The decision could intensify pressure over ...
The battle at Fairy Creek, a fight over some of the planet’s oldest trees, has raged for two summers and has led to the most arrests ever for a protest in modern Canadian history. At stake is some of ...
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Softwood lumber tariffs are the kind of issue that sets off a buzz saw of controversy in British Columbia while eliciting snores south of the border. Once more, as with Pacific ...
CALGARY, Alberta, June 9 (Reuters) - Canada's British Columbia province agreed on Wednesday to a request from indigenous groups to defer logging of old-growth trees in the Fairy Creek watershed on ...
Old-growth trees are already being cut to make way for a logging road in the Argonaut Valley of British Columbia, August 2020 (Photo by Charlotte Dawe / Wilderness Committee) VANCOUVER, British ...
A woman stands near a blockade of protesters against old growth timber logging in the Fairy Creek area of Vancouver Island, near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Canada May 24, 2021. Picture taken May ...